For those in high dudgeon who are reading this column and would intone piously about the rule of law, let me ask if you are sure the toilet you used at the gas station was cleaned by a legal immigrant or a U.S. citizen. How about your garden and lawn? And your housecleaners? And the guy who waits on you at the lunch counter or cleans the dishes after you have eaten? Are those all here legally? I invite you to vindicate your self-righteous views on immigration by mowing your own lawn, cleaning your own toilets and cooking your own food — or do so for $5.25 an hour.I don't use gas station rest rooms - they're never cleaned anyway. I clean my own house, I mow my own lawn. I take care of my own children too.Walmart buys third-world labor and wants to hire it here too.
It cost me $12,000 for a new roof and would have cost a lot more with native labor - but I don't see any more native construction crews. There ought to be. If eight Americans working two twelve hour days got an extra ten bucks an hour, I could afford it. And maybe there wouldn't be so d... many McMansions springing up all over NJ.
Mrs VS
It would seem you live in one of those McMansions you so decry, if you paid 12,000 for a new roof.
Had a new roof put on my house (4br colonial) a few years back for WAAAAY less than that.